Rescuers clapped and cheered as the toddler, the daughter of migrant workers from Myanmar, was pulled out of the 49-foot-deep well shaft.
BANGKOK — An overnight rescue operation successfully retrieved a 19-month-old girl from a dry artesian well shaft Tuesday — 18 hours after she fell into the hole at a cassava farm in northern Thailand.
Rescuers dug overnight alongside the pit, about 30 centimeters wide, using several backhoes and other excavation devices. This morning's top headlines: Tuesday, Feb. 7 World Quake deaths pass 5,000 as Turkey, Syria seek survivors Rescuers are racing to find survivors in the rubble of thousands of buildings brought down by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and multiple aftershocks that struck eastern Turkey and neighboring Syria. The death toll rose to more than 5,000.
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